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• Study: Electric drive vehicles have little impact on US pollutant emissions
• Engineering new properties on ultra-thin nanomaterials: Tool opens door for design of new phases of materials
• Understanding the functioning of a new type of solar cell
• Bio-inspired robotic device could aid ankle-foot rehabilitation
• Training the brain using neurofeedback
• Seeing things: A new transparent display system could provide heads-up data
• Physicists quantify temperature changes in metal nanowires
• Baseball: Not safe at home
• Staying cool in the nanoelectric universe by getting hot
• Energy-dense sugar battery created
• Rosetta: 'Sleeping beauty' wakes up from deep space hibernation
• Radiation before surgery more than doubles mesothelioma survival
• Deciphering plants' electrical signals to devise new environmental biosensors
• First infrared satellite monitoring of peak pollution episodes in China
• Novel nanotherapy breakthrough may help reduce recurrent heart attacks, stroke
• Milky Way may have formed 'inside-out:' Gaia provides new insight into galactic evolution
• Island channel could power about half of Scotland, studies show
• Ultra-thin tool heating for injection molding
• Hydrocephalus: Sensors monitor cerebral pressure
• Peeking into Schrödinger's Box
• Double-layer capping solves two problems
• Lab-on-a-chip realizes potential

Study: Electric drive vehicles have little impact on US pollutant emissions Posted: 21 Jan 2014 11:38 AM PST A new study indicates that even a sharp increase in the use of electric drive passenger vehicles by 2050 would not significantly reduce emissions of high-profile air pollutants carbon dioxide, sulfur

Engineering new properties on ultra-thin nanomaterials: Tool opens door for design of new phases of materials Posted: 21 Jan 2014 08:37 AM PST Physicists have engineered novel magnetic and electronic phases in the ultra-thin films of in a specific electronic magnetic material, opening the door for researchers to design new classes of

Understanding the functioning of a new type of solar cell Posted: 21 Jan 2014 08:34 AM PST Scientists have uncovered the mechanism by which novel, revolutionary solar cells based on lead iodide perovskite light-absorbing semiconductor transfer electrons along their surface. The finding

Bio-inspired robotic device could aid ankle-foot rehabilitation Posted: 21 Jan 2014 08:34 AM PST A soft, wearable device that mimics the muscles, tendons and ligaments of the lower leg could aid in the rehabilitation of patients with ankle-foot disorders such as drop foot, said a robotics

Training the brain using neurofeedback Posted: 21 Jan 2014 08:34 AM PST A new brain-imaging technique enables people to "watch" their own brain activity in real time and to control or adjust function in predetermined brain regions. The study is the first to

Seeing things: A new transparent display system could provide heads-up data Posted: 21 Jan 2014 08:34 AM PST Scientists have developed a new approach to produce transparent projection screens. Their result paves the way for a new class of transparent displays with many attractive features, including wide

Physicists quantify temperature changes in metal nanowires Posted: 21 Jan 2014 08:33 AM PST Physicists have demonstrated the capability of measuring temperature changes in very small 3-D regions of

Baseball: Not safe at home Posted: 21 Jan 2014 08:33 AM PST Tag plays at home plate have the highest injury rate in professional baseball, occurring 4.3 times more often than other base-running plays, according to

Staying cool in the nanoelectric universe by getting hot Posted: 21 Jan 2014 07:41 AM PST As smartphones, tablets and other gadgets become smaller and more sophisticated, the heat they generate while in use increases. This is a growing problem because it can cause the electronics inside

Energy-dense sugar battery created Posted: 21 Jan 2014 06:30 AM PST A new sugar battery that could be on the market and powering the world's gadgets in three years has an energy density and order of magnitude higher than

Rosetta: 'Sleeping beauty' wakes up from deep space hibernation Posted: 20 Jan 2014 08:11 AM PST It was a fairy-tale ending to a tense chapter in the story of the Rosetta space mission this evening as the European Space Agency heard from its distant spacecraft for the first time in 31

Radiation before surgery more than doubles mesothelioma survival Posted: 20 Jan 2014 02:32 PM PST Results of clinical research that treated mesothelioma with radiation before surgery show the three-year survival rate more than doubled for study participants afflicted with this deadly disease,

Deciphering plants' electrical signals to devise new environmental biosensors Posted: 20 Jan 2014 08:47 AM PST Science is becoming closer emulating the fiction of a popular Avatar movie, by deciphering plants' electrical signals to devise new holistic environmental

First infrared satellite monitoring of peak pollution episodes in China Posted: 20 Jan 2014 06:55 AM PST Plumes of several anthropogenic pollutants (especially particulate matter and carbon monoxide) located near ground level over China have for the first time been detected from space. The work was

Novel nanotherapy breakthrough may help reduce recurrent heart attacks, stroke Posted: 20 Jan 2014 06:55 AM PST A new report shows that new statin nanotherapy can target high-risk inflammation inside heart arteries that causes heart attacks or

Milky Way may have formed 'inside-out:' Gaia provides new insight into galactic evolution Posted: 20 Jan 2014 06:06 AM PST Research on first data release from Gaia-ESO project suggests the Milky Way formed by expanding out from the center, and reveals new insights into the way our Galaxy was

Island channel could power about half of Scotland, studies show Posted: 20 Jan 2014 06:06 AM PST Renewable tidal energy sufficient to power about half of Scotland could be harnessed from a single stretch of water off the north coast of the Scotland, engineers

Ultra-thin tool heating for injection molding Posted: 20 Jan 2014 06:04 AM PST In future, thin-film heating will allow plastic parts to be produced with greatly improved surface quality. Researchers have also found a way to make the whole process more energy

Hydrocephalus: Sensors monitor cerebral pressure Posted: 20 Jan 2014 06:04 AM PST If the pressure in a patient's brain is too high, physicians implant a system in the head that regulates the pressure. A sensor can now measure and individually adjust brain pressure. The sensor

Peeking into Schrödinger's Box Posted: 20 Jan 2014 05:50 AM PST Until recently, measuring a 27-dimensional quantum state would have been a time-consuming, multistage process using a technique called quantum tomography, which is similar to creating a 3D image from

Double-layer capping solves two problems Posted: 18 Jan 2014 09:24 AM PST Using a newly developed technique, protective casings for microscale devices can be built quickly and cheaply without damaging

Lab-on-a-chip realizes potential Posted: 18 Jan 2014 09:24 AM PST A portable instrument that replaces a full-size laboratory provides accurate multi-element analysis in less than a

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